We left Easter Island on a Tuesday afternoon and had to fly all the way back to Santiago Chile before catching a 13 hour flight from Santiago to Auckland. We arrived at 4:00 in the morning after a full 24 hours of travel time and with the additional time zone change we spent two days travelling from Easter Island to Auckland. Fortunately we were arriving in a developed nation that rivals our own, so we had no trouble finding our way around. We elected to hang ou...

So we've completed our 11 weeks in South America and figured it would be a good idea to provide a summary of our experience in this incredibly diverse continent. To start with, we visited six countries during our explorations; Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. We ended up taking 13 flights throughtout the journey which included the remote destinations of the Galapagos Islands, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), and Puerto Maldonado (the amazon rainfor...

We left for Easter Island on April 15 and planned to visit the world's most isolated, inhabited island for 6 days. The five hour flight went by relatively quickly but ended with the plane landing in a monsoon-like tropical storm. It is an odd feeling landing in such a remote area, especially at night when everything is pitch black until all of a sudden you feel the plane rattle on the landing strip. We hadn't made any kind of reservations for accomodations and w...

Our team of four were very eager to visit the popular Argentinian wine region of Mendoza and sample some of the prized Malbec wines that the hundreds of wineries offer. We arrived in the Valparaiso Chile bus terminal in the morning ready to set off to Argentina but quickly realized that the buses were all full and the rest had already left. Serves us right for not checking ahead! Instead, we elected to push on to a small town named Los Andes, which was en route t...

We left Lima Peru early in the morning and caught a 3 hour flight south to Santiago Chile to meet up with our good friends Andrew and Nicola. They had arrived quite a bit earlier but elected to tough it out and wait for us to arrive at the airport. We spent the majority of our four days in Santiago walking around the city, taking in the sights and sipping on litre bottles of cerveza on streetside patios. We stayed in Bario Bellavista and our hostel was a short t...